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Looking back on his creation in his declining years, Frederick Terman reflected, "When we set out to create a community of technical scholars in Silicon Valley, there wasn't much here and the rest of the world looked awfully big. Now a lot of the rest of the world is here." When once asked whether he wanted his university to be a teaching institution or a research institution, he replied that "it should be a learning institution".
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